Dreamers Rise

This Puffin picture book, which was published in the mid-1940s, is by the husband-and-wife team of Margaret and Alexander Potter. The human ...

While trying to scan some photographs from an old paperback I was having issues with pixelation. Rather than try to fix the problem (and not...

Just ahead of dawn the young sentry in the lobby of the interior ministry, bored and sleepy after yet another overnight shift alone, heard t...

Jules Shear has been around the music business for more than two decades, having composed several songs that became at least minor hits for ...

The Cremorne McAuley Mission, at 104 West 32nd Street near Sixth Avenue, New York. The engraving, which probably dates from around 1883-84, ...

I first read this novel in 1993, the year it was published in the US by Knopf, but the copyright date of the Czech edition, Soudce z milosti...

Like Ivan Klíma himself, the narrator of the "The Tightrope Walkers," the fourth and final story in this 1985 collection, has spe...

If someone would like to translate these books for me as a personal favor I'd be really quite grateful. Thanks. Ivan Klíma, My Mad Centu...

Tony Judt : We often find ourselves asserting or assuming that the distinctive feature of modernity is the individual: the unreducible subj...

The second annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. The Frogs' Discovery When the Money Was Gone The Assault of ...

Jeanette Winterson: Rumour has it that the inhabitants of this city walk on water. That, more bizarre still, their feet are webbed. Not...

Katazome (stencil-dyed) calendar page by Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984). (Scanned from a commercially issued reproduction.)

All was quiet the next morning. There were a few heavy clouds along the horizon that he thought might portend a storm, but the next time he ...

At first glance, the life of Roger Casement, the British diplomat turned Irish nationalist who was executed for treason in 1916, might not s...

At the beginning of the seventh week all communication with Z---- was broken off again, this time for three days. It resumed promptly and wi...

He was the last one left. Just before decamping the legionnaires loaded up the barrels of gunpowder that remained onto carts, piled on all t...

Possibly it's the end of the world, she's not the one to say, but if so as luck would have it the end of the world finds her in a ci...

Until about ten days ago I had no idea that Andy Irvine had a new record in the works, and now here it is, whisked over the seas from Irela...

The copyright page of this little book, which consists of fifteen paintings by Julio Silva accompanied by texts by Julio Cortázar, suggests ...

A couple of footnotes to my last post , on Kayano Shigeru's Our Land Was A Forest. Kayano devotes one chapter of his memoir to his work...